Advice Goddess Quotes & Sayings

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. — Tahir Shah

People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it. — Ibn Ata Allah

Man can refuse to cooperate, but he cannot keep God from executing the critical events on His schedule. — Beth Moore

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses. — Wavy Gravy

Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater. — Amy Alkon

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all. — Anne Hathaway

While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings. — Hermann Hesse

If someone's life is not enriched by their time with you, then you're not doing something right. — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. Once, in a sunset-ending street of Beardsley, she turned to little Eva Rosen (I was taking both nymphets to a concert and walking behind them so close as almost to touch them with my person), she turned to Eva, and so very serenely and seriously, in answer to something the other had said about its being better to die than hear Milton Pinski; some local schoolboy she knew, talk about music, my Lolita remarked:
'You know what's so dreadful about dying is that you're completely on your own'; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions ... — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday. — Tahar Rahim

It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself. — Joan Osborne

Most girls are attracted to the simple things in life. Like men. — Henny Youngman

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it. — Bruce Lee

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language. — Rob Delaney

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether. — Andrew Solomon

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny! — Victor Hugo